The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- plain-stone-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7HP
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 945
- Coordinates
- 51.64674, -1.16714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a late 17th-century house, extended in the 18th century. It is constructed of rendered timber framing and colourwashed rubble, with brick quoins, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building originally comprised three bays, forming a near-symmetrical arrangement on the right side of a four-window front. The ground floor has a 6-panel door positioned between three-light casement windows. The first floor has casement windows of 3, 1, and 3 lights. Two small roof dormers flank a central roof stack with three diagonal shafts. A later rubble bay features three-light casement windows to both the ground and first floors, and has its own gable stack. All windows have leaded lights. The right gable wall also features casement windows. The rear wall has some exposed timber framing.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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